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Show Uncle Sam's National Forestry Policy llt,tamm't'mi''mmmmB'tWRWl rtlt''T'''""'T'nniniMiiiiiiiiiiiii HHiiiiiiiiiMiiiin mnwn i aniim iiiiiiuiiinimiuisninniTn rn rT Representative Ilaugea t Iowa, chairman of the house committee on agriculture, lias appointed a subcommittee subcom-mittee on forestry, consisting of himself. him-self. Mclvfluphlin of Michigan, Clarke of New York, Rainey of Illinois and Jones of . Texas. Chairman , Haugen hopes to secure favorable congressional congress-ional action on a forestry policy advo--cated by Secretary WallacW , It,; Includes: In-cludes: .. '. ",'''; Extension of thV existing lederalj co-operation with the states In forest Are protection, , , , ' initiation of federal ro-operation with the states in growing or diBtrlb-, utlng forest trees or seeds for planting. plant-ing. ; . Extension of the national forests. Present financial co-operation between be-tween the national, and state governments govern-ments Is limited to the distribution of $400,000 annually among the state governments gov-ernments which themselves make some provl&ion for protecting forests from fire. Taxation systems that make it economically eco-nomically possible to grow timber, and fire protection arrangements that give, reasonable assurance that such enterprises will not' be frustrated by fire, against which Insurance is not available, are held to be Indispensable to prt vate enterprises In reforestation. - i - The United States has no comprehensive national forestry policy and eon. . gress is being urged to provide one to fill the need. . Borah Is Senate Buttermilk Champion Senator William E. Bornh (portrait (por-trait herewith) Is the champion but- : termllk drinker of the upper house. The two "flghtinest men" Sena-' tors Tom Watson, Georgia, and La Follette, Wisconsinpractice extremes during their hot weather training periods. pe-riods. Watson fills up at lunch time on a heavy; menty, three-course meal, with generous amounts of coffee thrown In. La Follette eats nothing at midday. Tnke It from Joseph M. Lnnger, manager of the senate restaurant, senators sen-ators have as many different views on what to eat during the hot weather as they have on current legislative topics. , ' . j- Accordlng to Langer, Borah, the leading buttermilk Imbiber, drinks one or two glasses at noon every day. Two other caloric substances figure In his noonday dietary program lettuce and spinach alternating from day to day. i ' I uespite difference In opinion over matters of tariff anu peace leagues. Senator Underwood supports Borah in the matter,of the lettuce habit, but won't follow him along the spinach route. ' ..'. . . ; . Senator Uenry Cabot Lodge, sticks ,o s chicken sandwich tnd a glass of milk. , ' ' ' , Senator McCumber, North Dakota,. n strong for watermelon. lie Invariably Inva-riably precedes this with a ham sandwich and a glass of milk, Hiram Johnson Is long on a small amount of crackers In a greut amount of milk. , Senator Walsh, Massachusetts, Is the chief exponent of fish In the senate. In short, the hot weather meal for the perspiring 'senators for the most part embraces a bowl of crackers and milk, a sandwich and a cup of coffee. 111 ' '" I" 1 m For Permanent Immigration Limitation f. ... v h, Passage of permanent restrictive Immigration legislation Is on the pro-' griim for next winter's session of congress. con-gress. Itepresentatlve Johnson ' of Washington, chairman of the house committee on Immigration, believes that the United States never will return re-turn to the wide open door policy prevailing pre-vailing prior to the passage of the present temporary 3 per cent restrlo-' tive law. ' Johnson at next winter's session expects to press a bill, which he Introduced In-troduced before the adjournment of the house, revising the present law so as to give all countries a base quota ofi 600 plus 2 per cent of the number of aliens from that particular country In the United States as shown by the census of 1010. Ills bill also contains other new features, including a requirement re-quirement that aliens coming Into th United Stutes shall obtuin a certificate t admission from an American consul As the situation now stands the present S per cent restrictive act has been extended for a two-year period from July 1. Johnson favors the enactment of permanent legislation which will become effective before the rxnlrntlon ot lite iwo-eur period. Look at the Sun; Forecast the Weather Joseph, the long-famed weather prophet of the Bible, who foretold the t seven fat years and the following seven years of fntnlne, may one day he s''own up as a piker by modern woollier forecasters, when solur observations obser-vations being conducted by the Smith-sorjlnn Smith-sorjlnn Institution are completed. lr. C. (I. Abbott, assistant secre-f secre-f ii ry of the Institution, describing the Institution's world wide studies of the variation (lf (be beat of the sun. declares de-clares the institution researches ure being closely followed by scientists all over the world, and may tiiuke longtime long-time prognostications a a usual and simple part of weather' mapping, .After many years' close observation observa-tion anil measurement of the heat radiation ra-diation from the sun. It bus been finally determined that the sun does not tbro'v off a continuous amount of heat; tliiit neither docs the earth receive re-ceive h constant amount of solar beat; V4 ( f 1 . : !,v v ''4 I '- ' I flint these variations are periodic and regular according ,w M-veral factors, pilimirily the pun's rotation; and that there Is u direct connection with solar variation and the earth's climate. Our weather bureau in studying the relation of weather conditions to tut radiation of the sun. |